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Friday, May 13, 2011

Reminded

In the past day I have read two unbelievably heart wrenching stories by two different adopting families who have one thing in common-- their beloved, longed-for children have died.

It is Awful.
It is Heartbreaking.
It is a Crying Shame.
It is Unacceptable.
.
I am sure that words for them cannot express the loss and grief these families are experiencing right now. Two children that these families had longed to adopt and save, children who never had the opportunity to experience the love of a family, are now gone forever. They will never meet them, hold them, kiss them and love on them like they had planned. That job now is up to our Heavenly Father. Only He can provide them now with the love they never got to experience in their short time here on earth.

How tragic that these lives have been lost. How immeasurably sad that despite the best efforts of these families to get to these children, they were just a little too late.

And this is going on all over the world.

So many children are DYING! Dying without ever knowing the love of a mommy and daddy. Dying because their basic needs cannot be met. Dying because they cannot receive a surgery or the proper medical care that they need to get to live. DYING.

This isn't an every-once-in-awhile thing. This isn't happening in just one area of the world.

No.

This is an all-the-time thing and these children I speak of today were from different parts of the globe.

There are children all over the world tonight who need a family.
Need hope.
Need someone to wrap their arms around them and tell them they are loved.
That everything will be ok.
That they will get what they need.

Please let us not turn our backs on the immense need of the world's children.

God expects us to care for the orphans. It is not a request, it is a command. He tells us to do it. Are we caring for them adequately enough if they are languishing away in orphanages, isolated in laying rooms without a toy in sight, being denied the basic of necessities, being treated like less than human beings and more like animals??

Only you can answer for yourself as to what you feel you must do. Can everyone adopt? No. But everyone CAN do SOMETHING.

So, tonight I am reminded of how important adoption really is. Reminded of what this journey is really all about. Reminded that the life of a child is at stake. This isn't just something to check off your "life's goals" list. Adoption is important work. It is God's work. He is working through adoptive families to save His children, and for many of these children, as you can see, this is life or death we are talking about. They want to live. They want to be given a chance!

Search your heart tonight and ask God to tell you what you can do.
Please. For the sake of His children.

Believe it or Not... Reeces Rainbow is finding families for many children with Down Syndrome

This will touch your heart-- the plight of the orphan in China. Take a look.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.~ Walt Emerson

"I cannot play it safe and please God"

Keith Seabourn

"All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

"I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things I have not done."

Lucille Ball

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius

"And I took the road less traveled by, and that made all the difference."

Robert Frost

"Preach the gospel always, and when necessary, use words."

Unknown

"The one who says it can't be done should get out of the way of the one who is doing it."

Chinese Proverb

"If we say we love God but do nothing on behalf of the world's vulnerable children, we're kidding ourselves; we're ignorant and misinformed. You cannot love God without developing a passion for orphans."

About Me

I am wife to Tim, and stay-at-home Mommy to 10 amazing children! Four of them are biological, and 6 are through the blessing of adoption. We are a Christian homeschooling family who love life and try to follow God's will in all of it.

The beautiful children listed here are all available for adoption through Reece's Rainbow, or have wonderful families trying to raise enough money to bring these children home. They are from a variety of countries around the world and each is beautiful and perfect just the way God made them. They are all deserving of a loving home. Most have Down Syndrome, others have different special needs like HIV, Cerebral Palsy or FAS. Please consider donating to one of these children's funds to give these precious children of God a greater chance to grow up in a loving family instead of being doomed to a short life in an institution.